British

In 1944 the British submitted a full plan to kill Hitler during one of his routine, solitary walks. It was never carried out because he was such a poor strategist, they realised his replacement would do a better job of defending from the Allies. Ultimately a sniper attack was considered to be the method most […]

The Queen of England owns a collection of Islands known as the British Indian Ocean Territories. There are no elections and the heads of state are chosen by the Queen. The British Indian Ocean Territory, or in abbreviated form BIOT, is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. It is administered by aCommissioner, resident in […]

A British bomb detection dog in Afghanistan died from the stress of seeing his handler shot. They had set a new record for bomb detections and the dog was awarded the equivalent to a Victoria Cross. Theo DM (2009–2011), was an English Springer Spaniel who served as a bomb detection dog for the British Army […]

In 2010 a british policeman drove an Ice cream van into the middle of a riot and played “ice-cream van” music in an attempt to calm the youths. The official report was, ‘humour defused the situation and the trouble stopped’. “Young people were throwing bottles at a Land Rover vehicle in Lisburn last Saturday […]

Despite sharing the same oral language, British, Irish, Australian and American sign language are all completely different languages “Although the United Kingdom and the United States share English as the predominant oral language, British Sign Language is quite distinct from American Sign Language (ASL) – having only 31% signs identical, or 44% cognate. BSL is […]